The US simply cannot accept that it lost the battle for hearts and minds across the Global South and even among a growing segment of the Western population itself.
1. RT does not influence many people outside of the converted.
2. The US is censoring RT because it can, and sees this as a relaitively easy test case for censorship, since no goodthink educated person wants to be seen as siding with Russia.
"...behaving in a very intellectually insulting way..."
The ghost of Moron McCain!
Strikes (yet) again?
"...a nation that is afraid of its people.”"
And so they rightly should and ought be afraid: VERY afraid!
And the U.S. doesn't? LOL
1) Foreign Policy - U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans, By John Hudson
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/
2) Business Insider - The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public, by Michael B Kelley, May 21, 2012
https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5
https://web.archive.org/web/20120523171842/https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5
3) Bangor Daily News - U.S. quietly repeals propaganda ban, spreads government-made news to Americans
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2013/07/15/news/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/
4) Business Insider - US Government-Funded Domestic Propaganda Has Officially Hit The Airwaves, Jul 16, 2013
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-domestic-propaganda-officially-aired-2013-7
https://web.archive.org/web/20130719122040/https://www.businessinsider.com/us-domestic-propaganda-officially-aired-2013-7
Blaming RT for lack of support for the west's genocidal agenda is like a convicted rapist blaming the news reporter for their bad reputation.
1. RT does not influence many people outside of the converted.
2. The US is censoring RT because it can, and sees this as a relaitively easy test case for censorship, since no goodthink educated person wants to be seen as siding with Russia.